lfm@ukc.UUCP (L.Marshall) (05/21/84)
There was another interesting sizeof problem with the V7 PDP11 compiler
(I dont know if it affected any others) whereby combinations of negation
and coercion applied to "sizeof" fell over. I cant remember the exact
error but it was something like either
- (long) sizeof(int)
or
(long) - sizeof(int)
The result was not properly sign extended from 16 to 32 bits.
I can dig out the exact details if anyone is interested.
Lindsay F. Marshall
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